Trojan Strathclyde Police

globalds

Has anybody got any idea which web sites are infected ?

WarioTBH

Currently im fixing a PC with the exact same issue,

What i did was re-boot into safemode with networking and that was so i can still get access to the internet, are you able to gain access to the internet still in safemode? if not, download all the programs you need on a different computer and put them on a memory stick

If you download RKill from the link above, you just need to double click it and a black box will come up, you dont need to do anything more, just let it do its thing and it will tell you when its finished.

Once done, go on the internet again and download SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition, im starting to like this more than Malwarebytes for safemode virus scans. Install it and update it then do a complete full scan and put it on boost mode.

Currently the PC i have here has found the trojan, and disable task manager stuff

QuackQuack_2

I must just chip in about Anti-virus. Please don't assume it to be a magic bullet. Signature based AV is always playing catch up. I've seen trojans created with the popular Metasploit framework take six to nine months before they get detected by the average desktop. Don't be fooled by the big padlocks and promises of high security - all is not what it seems!

Far more important is to make sure that your operating system, browser and applications are fully up-to-date. If you plug the hole in the browser in the first place, your AV playing 'catch up' really becomes less of an issue.

WarioTBH

Wise words from QuackQuack!

QuackQuack_2

WarioTBH wrote: »

Wise words from QuackQuack!

You may want to screen-shot it, it don't happen often

ashleygreen

This message scared the b-jesus out of my son - thanks for the easy solution. Ashley

bensonsmum

Same in my house my OH rang me up and said i think we have a problem - and explained it to me so i got my daughter to take some photos of the screen and send to my phone, i could tell straight away it was a virus and managed to peel my OH off the ceiling so thankfully its on the way to getting sorted due to the info on here:beer::beer::beer:

dixiebb

Strat. police running around like headless chickens ! :rotfl:

C_Mababejive

DatabaseError wrote: »

If I'm reading this right, shouldn't be a problem for pretty much anyone with up to date antivirus

Or people using Linux..

QuackQuack_2

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Or people using Linux..

Not true - like Mac, it's a false sense of security. Metasploit ships with a ton of backdoors and other nasties for Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac. Ironically Windows is most likely to detect these as nearly all boxes have some kind of AV running. Linux/Unix/Mac do not. Getting into Linux and trashing/backdooring it is just as easy, if not easier, that Windows systems.

Currently attacks aimed at the core of domestic gateway routers running Busybox (A Linux-esque executable) have increased and I've seen units with malware (and backdoors) dropped into them that spoof DNS and intercept web traffic.

Those that assume Linux to be 'more secure' are making a very dangerous assumption - it's not. It has some great security features, but the biggest weakness will always be layer 8